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Eradicating Fruit Fly From Carnarvon, Kingsley Thomas Fisher
Eradicating Fruit Fly From Carnarvon, Kingsley Thomas Fisher
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Late last year the Mediteranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata Weidemann) was eradicated from Canarvon, Western Australia by using an intergrated programme of sterile insect releases and bait spraying.
The eradication marked the end of a four-year study on the use and effectiveness of the Sterile Insect Technique, a biological control technique which uses an insect pest against itself. such a study can be used as a basis for treating other threatening insect pests, such as the serious cattle pest screw-worm fly, should they be found in Asustralia.
Being a biological control method, the Sterile Insect Technique is an exellent …